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Environment & Energy

Lionessa

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1. I think the fact that it was initially and still generally called global "warming" that has

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Tue Feb 5, 2013, 06:41 PM

Feb 2013

much to do with current weather effecting opinions. That meme "warming" should have been nixed right away. Additionally, look at local news, there's 10 minutes of news for 20 minutes of weather, local forecasting of current and near future weather. We are forced to focus on the here and now daily when it comes to weather, and with a lot of dedication. And yet even more, we all see the weather with all it's 20 minutes of explanations as to how it is being forecast not doing as forecasters tell us it will. Even tomorrow's forecast has a potential to be wrong, and a 10 day forecast will change many times before day 10 becomes day 1. I think there are many reason that this phenomenon occurs and they are not altogether illogical, even if they're wrong.

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I think the fact that it was initially and still generally called global "warming" that has Lionessa Feb 2013 #1

And if that isn't an indictment of Americans' truebluegreen Feb 2013 #2